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Heartbreak is real.
Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
Jean Cocteau
Too much good taste can be boring.
Diana Vreeland
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
To be an artist is to see what others could not.
Patti Smith
The Read, September
The Last Thing He Wanted by JOAN DIDION
Introducing the debut of The Read, Wiseling’s new monthly book club. The first Monday of each month we’ll announce the month’s read. We’ll be turning to Twitter at the end of the month for lively thought and discussion.
On a major Didion kick these days, I’ve selected her book The Last Thing He Wanted for our first month of The Read. A personal role model of strength and self-awareness, Didion never fails to strike me with her uncanny ability to invoke the most intense human emotions as she guides a fascinating and affecting journey of personal storytelling. She's also just really cool. Having met her husband, the late John Gregory Dunne– a writer for Time, screenwriter, novelist and literary critic– while working at Vogue early in her career, she led a literary life entwined with his, unconventionally bouncing between coasts and hanging out on the sets of Hollywood productions. Having spent most of her professional life writing essays, memoirs, fiction and co-writing several screenplays, she also tried her hand at stage, writing an adaptation of her book The Magical Year of Thinking in the Scott Rudin produced Broadway play starring Vanessa Redgrave. How cool is that?
Didion's work is largely centered around tragedy, both personal and observed, and through it she makes the most relatable connections centered around moral conflict and motive. She delivers social commentary written in beautiful, poignant verse. While her writing is slow and deliberate, elusive in approach, her delivery is powerful in eliciting thought, emotion and a fresh perspective.
What I know about The Last Thing He Wanted is that it's a novel that takes place in Hollywood, Capital Hill, Miami and on a tropical island somewhere in Central America. It's a story about American politics, wealth, drug deals and conspiracy, and in the typical Didion style I admire, "lacks a coherent plot structure" (according to Commentary Magazine's review). Having only read her autobiographical works, I'm looking forward to a novel Commentary called "deconstructed literary smoke and mirrors."
–Chelsey
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